The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1887-04-27
Essay.
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BRO. 4 Il SMILEY.

Eoioymcnl j. what makes life desirable
II j. because our ioys oYrrbalancc our
sorrows. that We care 10 live at all ! he
licye the person WHO enjoy, most. makes
the most Of life We often hear the
pleasures Of the world lightly spoken of
As though they were of small account, put
What would the world b without them
Take from us the pleasures aud enjoy
medt, and you leave life barren waste.
II i our privilege. | almost say our duty
to seek the greatest possible amount 81
enjoyment and lis not too much To say
that the farmers life can give this do
not con end that the life Of the ordinary
farmer j. all it ought to be, or can be
We all know that farming was the iir>t
occupation of civilized man, and farmers
have inherited their pecrliaritIc~ OF
thought ard manners of life through Il
long line of ancestry; and IL Is not to he
expected that new ideas will make ~ rap
id progress among those belonging to oc-
equations of more recent origin For
this reason if no other the farmers life
does not to day, occupy that cminence
among the calling of men, which it is des-
tined To, and which is nature admits of.
1t is IA fact. which | think none will
deny. that the amount of brain work cX-
when compared with the amount of phys
ical labor expended 1t has been, and Is
too much matter of routine. We pur-
sue n certain course not so much because
reason dictates it, as because it has been
the custom. When the vast array of far
mers shall be controlled in all of their al
fairs BY reason farmer life will be the
noblest calling to which man can aspire
Now the first thing in Importance, l. to
live The farmer produces and can con-
troll the means of living; can we derry t
any enjoyment from that thought! II i
possible for the farmer to live indepCn-
dent of other callin2s, but no other occu
patton can live independent OF the farm
er. 1t is within their power to realize
lust such profits from their toll a they
see 1T, and to br NJ all others to suhjec-
tion Farmers belong to the majority
class and have the advantage of numbers
as well as occupation, If evils exist in
government or society it Is possible for
the farmers to do away with them. 1t Is
possible for them to have just such gov
eminent as they desire What an unfali-
ing fountain of enjoyment is here from
which the farmer may drink. Why, II
these statements are true, and who car
1 gainsay them, the tiller, of the soil arr
/ kings among men
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'.an,i onJ tho farmers. lifa of al
vi ,a' ~ a.. '' ','.+ ~ lac. desired
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49,, " 49,, rra,,,,o a.o nnt nntirnIv salts
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hafora ,,,n,,, rlnv orn sretino new
nn,hods ,rbev aro nrospcutinu theil
,,,.'in,'., ,,ra svstematicallv. thrv ar,
ovarci.i,u their rrasoninp movers the,
ara ,,n,nnnting tho nroti,s and losses the,
a a.e ~, cha cnonnrotion of thriI
-. sa,,.,,r, ,.ith n ,.io,y of rnalizino
~, at',,,ota ,riro for thcir nroductions
,ha,. or, doino inst what they do in al
'',t,'.. ii,,I.' &c ,'n.iuasa uom.iv 1onki, 81
au, s,r ,hoir a,,n interests
r. ~ ,,,, mini there il nothinp which
shows the advantage which the farmer
,,no,',', ''e '',. ,,I,nr ocrunotinus moro
rlnar,y ,h,n the fact that he has been
nodnro,,Iv successful oven when his
hnsinass has hnen conducted after the old
styla foliowino in the The old ruts of
his fathers, without ihethous, "l'houI